One Chance in a Million

{{short description|1927 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = One Chance in a Million | image = | caption = | director = Noel M. Smith | producer = Samuel Sax |based_on = | writer = L.V. Jefferson | narrator = | starring =William Fairbanks <br> Viora Daniel <br> Charles K. French | music = | cinematography =James S. Brown Jr. | editing = | studio =Gotham Pictures | distributor = Lumas Film Corporation | released ={{Film date|1927|04|01}} | runtime =55 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent <br> English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''One Chance in a Million''''' is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring William Fairbanks, Viora Daniel and Charles K. French.<ref>Munden p.567</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-04 |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) National Film Preservation Board (January 2021) - (Current as of 02.04.2021) |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |website=LOC.GOV |quote=Some recent “finds” now removed from this list:...}}</ref> It was produced by the independent company Gotham Pictures.

==Synopsis== After rescuing Ruth Torrence an attractive young heiress from a horse, Jerry Blaine realizes that her fiancée Robert Weston is a thief planning to rob her of her diamonds.

==Cast== * William Fairbanks as Jerry Blaine * Viora Daniel as Ruth Torrence * Charles K. French as Richard Torrence * Henry Hebert as Robert Weston * Eddie Borden as Horace Featherby * Duke Martin as Pat Drogan

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==Bibliography== * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0018224}}

Category:1927 films Category:1927 crime films Category:American silent feature films Category:American crime films Category:Films directed by Noel M. Smith Category:American black-and-white films Category:Gotham Pictures films Category:1927 English-language films Category:1927 American films Category:English-language crime films